A Ṣūfī apologist of Nīshāpūr
Subtitle: the life and thought of Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī
By: S.Z. Chowdhury
Series: Monographs in Arabic and Islamic studies
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Sheffield, South Yorkshire; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781781795224
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Sufis; Biography; Sufism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Reviewing the literature on al-Sulamī; title: 2. Geography and environment; title: 3. Khurāsānian protégés: examining al-Sulamī's major sources; title: 4. Vita Sulamii; title: 5. Textual terrain and taxonomy: the oeuvre of Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī; title: 6. Words along the way?: surveying al-Sulamī's mystical lexicon; title: 7. Mystical interiority: al-Sulamī's method of self-transformation; title: 8. Final conclusions: an apologetics for a Ṣūfī orthodoxy; title: Bibliography; title: Index.